Will the UK phase out coal in a decade?

Despite government rhetoric that coal must go, experts say without policy changes this most carbon intensive fossil fuel is set to stay beyond 2030

The government is wrong to assume its existing policies will be enough to phase out coal power in the UK, analysts have told the Guardian.

Minister for energy and climate change Andrea Leadsom said this week that her department expected unabated (meaning without carbon capture) coal would make up just 1% of the country's electricity generation by 2025.